From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21743 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2006 21:15:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 21723 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2006 21:15:00 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20060228211500.21722.qmail@sourceware.org> X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC References: Subject: [Bug libgcj/26483] Wrong parsing of doubles when interpreted In-Reply-To: Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org To: java-prs@gcc.gnu.org From: "joseph at codesourcery dot com" Mailing-List: contact java-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00269.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Comment #5 from joseph at codesourcery dot com 2006-02-28 21:15 ------- Subject: Re: Wrong parsing of doubles when interpreted On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, wilson at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote: > The number 5e-324 exceeds the range of the (C language) double type. So the It's (just) within the range of denormal values for IEEE double precision. > Without access to a copy of the Java standard, it isn't clear to me what the > correct answer is here. The question is how denormal values should be handled by Java here. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26483